Julie - Large Print Author:Catherine Marshall As the Wallace family newspaper survives its enemies, and the battle lines are drawn between the immigrant laborers and the owners in the 1930s steel town of Alberton, Pennsylvania. The drama of valor and corruption is played out against a background of portentous flash floods, culminating in a catastrophic deluge that breaks the dam and overrun... more »s the Alderton countryside and town, carrying before it entire farms,Houses, Cars, trains, animals, and hundreds of hapless people.
The Great Flood - imbued with the author's meticulous research of the historic Johnstown Flood - threatens to destroy everything in its path: Julie, her family and friends, their crusading newspaper, and a community seething with the tensions of small town America coming of age.« less